genescale: Scales a matrix or vector.

In Bioconductor/genefilter: genefilter: methods for filtering genes from high-throughput experiments

Scales a matrix or vector.

Description

genescale returns a scaled version of the input matrix m by applying the following formula to each column of the matrix:

y[i] = ( x[i] - min(x) ) / ( max(x) - min(x) )

Usage

genescale(m, axis=2, method=c("Z", "R"), na.rm=TRUE)

Arguments

m	Input a matrix or a vector with numeric elements.
axis	An integer indicating which axis of m to scale.
method	Either "Z" or "R", indicating whether a Z scaling or a range scaling should be performed.
na.rm	A boolean indicating whether NA's should be removed.

Details

Either the rows or columns of m are scaled. This is done either by subtracting the mean and dividing by the standard deviation ("Z") or by subtracing the minimum and dividing by the range.

Value

A scaled version of the input. If m is a matrix or a dataframe then the dimensions of the returned value agree with that of m, in both cases the returned value is a matrix.

Author(s)

R. Gentleman

See Also

genefinder,scale

Examples

  m <- matrix(1:12, 4, 3)
  genescale(m)

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